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Mellon Foundation Announces Appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow
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Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From the Mellon Foundation: The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of the Foundation’s fellowship, Dr. Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, will pursue scholarship, writing, and research projects while also serving as a strategic partner and counsel, […]
Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Announces Publication of Festschrift to Honor the Legacy of Dr. Clifford Lynch Published
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From a CNI Announcement: We are pleased to announce the publication of Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, guest edited by CNI Associate Executive Director Emerita Joan K. Lippincott. This special issue, a supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 3 (July 2025), is now openly available through Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108. In the summer […]
Bloomberg Publishes Interview with Rebecca Lawrence, CEO, British Library
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From the Interview (via Bloomberg): Introduction Are you reading books — physical books — as much as you used to? Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries. These great institutions date back to the ancient world — the first repositories of written material are in present-day […]
Ebooks: Lyrasis Becomes the Sole Owner of The Palace Project, Move Will Enable Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to Take Up “New Efforts” to Advance Its Mission
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From Today’s Joint Announcement (Full Text): The Palace Project — a mobile app and digital platform that provides ebooks and audiobooks to more than 700 libraries — is changing ownership. Co-created by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Lyrasis in 2020, the app will now be owned solely by Lyrasis, a nonprofit that […]
From a Data Rescue Project Announcement: The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices. Started as a simple spreadsheet called […]
EveryLibrary Institute Releases “The Censorship Acceleration, An Analysis of Book Ban Trends After 2020” Report
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From ELI: The EveryLibrary Institute is proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new report by researcher Marianne Wood Forrest, “The Censorship Acceleration: An Analysis of Book Ban Trends After 2020.” This comprehensive report examines the growing scale, coordination, and political motivations behind the recent surge in book censorship within American schools and libraries. […]
Georgetown University Hires Alexia Hudson-Ward as New University Librarian and Dean of the Library
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From a Georgetown University Announcement: Georgetown has appointed Alexia Hudson-Ward, a leader in university library systems, as the new university librarian and dean of the library. Hudson-Ward will begin her role on Aug. 30, 2025, following the departure of Library Dean Harriette Hemmasi, who is retiring after seven years at Georgetown. Hudson-Ward is the associate director […]
From a Free Law Project Announcement by Stephanie Taube: We’re excited to officially launch RECAP Search Alerts for PACER—a powerful new way to stay on top of the federal court system. With this new feature, CourtListener will automatically notify you whenever there’s a new match in our PACER archive for any saved search you might […]
A New Book From IFLA: “Libraries Driving Education for Sustainable Development”; Open Access Edition Available
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From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): The Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, ENSULIB, is proud to announce the publication of its new book, Libraries Driving Education for Sustainable Development. This is number 186 in the IFLA Publications Series, and is published open access. The world is facing urgent and dramatic environmental, […]
A New Book From ACRL: The Open Science Cookbook; Open Access Edition Available
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From an ACRL Announcement: ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. [Clip] The Open Science Cookbook provides a wide variety of lesson plans and learning activities for supporting […]
